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SEC v. Milrud (layering, 2022)

Judgment entered

Machine-extracted, pending human review. The structured fields on this page were parsed automatically from the regulator's own release, linked below. Read the primary document before relying on any figure here, and tell us if something is wrong.

In 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission obtained a judgment against Milrud, alleging conduct this library classifies as layering. The release does not state a monetary figure that we were able to extract. A parallel criminal matter is referenced in the release.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-25319
Date filed 2022-01-26
Date resolved 2022-01-26
Court U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
Status judgment
Criminal parallel Yes
Defendants Milrud (individual)
Techniques Layering

What was ordered

Civil penalty
Disgorgement
Prejudgment interest
Total relief
Alleged gain

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

the Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on January 26, 2022 as release LR-25319. The respondents named are Milrud (1 individual, 0 entities). The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey.

This library tags the matter as layering, based on the conduct the regulator describes. Each tag links to a page explaining how that technique works, what statute it engages, and what penalties comparable actions have attracted. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

The release references a parallel criminal proceeding. Where a criminal case exists, the civil and criminal outcomes are recorded separately, because they resolve on different standards of proof.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

Timeline

  1. 2022-01-26 Litigation release published

Primary documents

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The linked release is a work of the United States government and is not subject to copyright. Our summary and narrative above are our own writing.

Other actions in the library sharing at least one technique tag with this one.

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. SpeedRoute LLC (layering, 2025) SEC 2025-01-10 Layering , Pump And Dump +2 settled
SEC v. Lightspeed Financial Services Group LLC (layering, 2024) SEC 2024-11-22 Layering , Wash Trading settled
SEC v. OTC Link LLC (layering, 2024) SEC 2024-08-12 Layering , Spoofing +2 settled
SEC v. Archipelago Trading Services, Inc. (layering, 2023) SEC 2023-08-29 Layering , Spoofing +1 settled
SEC v. Lek Securities Corporation, et. al. (layering, 2022) SEC 2022-06-17 Layering , Spoofing appealed
SEC v. Xuepeng Xie (layering, 2021) SEC 2021-09-27 Layering , Spoofing $600k settled

Record added September 8, 2026. submit a correction.